Anticipation

The kids are coming in today and I am out of my gourd.   I am in total anticipation for all the events that are taking place this weekend and the people who are coming in and out.   I will never have another birthday that is as big as this one and I intend to enjoy it all.   It brings back all the memories of each person who comes--happy and sad.    I remember who will not be here this week of birthdays but I let my mind go quickly to all the happy times we have had.

Focusing on the sad gets you deeper in the morass of feeling sorry for yourself.   I have had a great life; I have no reason to mourn for what could have been.  My word, in a little family in a small town, we had the giant of a father in the pulpit, a brother-in-law in the governor's chair, a husband in the presidency of the area college and on and on.  We have truly been blessed and continue to be every day.

Life does not suck for us.  We have sucked up a plenty of life!   Happy birthday to the July birthdays --past and present.